Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

12-2016

Abstract

In a large indoor environment such as a sports arena or convention center, smooth egress of crowd after an event can be seriously affected if infrastructure such as elevators and escalators break down. In this paper, we propose a novel crowd simulator known as SIM-DISRUPT for simulating egress scenarios in non-emergency situations. To surface the impact of disrupted infrastructure on the egress of crowd, SIM-DISRUPT includes features that allow users to specify selective disruptions as well as strategies for controlling the distribution and egress choices of crowd. Using SIM-DISRUPT, we investigate effects of crowd distribution, egress choices and infrastructure disruptions on crowd egress time and measure efficacies of different egress strategies under various infrastructure disruption scenarios. A real-world inspired use case is used to demonstrate the usefulness of SIM-DISRUPT in planning egress under various operational conditions.

Keywords

Convention center, Egress time, Emergency situation, Indoor environment, Investigate effects, Operational conditions

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Computer Sciences | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Publication

WSC 2016: Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, Washington DC, December 11-14

First Page

1316

Last Page

1327

ISBN

9781509044863

Identifier

10.1109/WSC.2016.7822186

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2016.7822186

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